Night rink Trenholme park

 

After getting the LUFA Farms vegetables I tried to make a painting of the skating rink in the middle of Trenholme Park. I did a night scene here once before, albeit not at night, in Light for Ghosts, back in 2022. If you follow my blog, you know that I have been just about everywhere in Montreal, to the point where I have to think about what I painted there, and how I painted it. In this take, I composed the scene with trees in the foreground up on the hill where I was standing, looking down on the rink, which is lit up by the flood lights above (unseen). Lights in windows in the background add some more depth. A few people were skating around the rink. There are lots of amber lights there, you see some orange glow in the foreground from one of them. I had to complete the background houses and tree details at home after the painting had a chance to dry.

Night rink Trenholme park, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, January 2025

 

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